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01. SIMON KEEP - Snow Powder Dust
02. SIMON KEEP - Snow Glitch
03. SIMON KEEP - Recording Silence
04. SIMON KEEP - Treated Silence
05. SIMON KEEP - Snow Drone One
06. SIMON KEEP - Snow Drone Two
07. SIMON KEEP - Snow Cracks One
08. SIMON KEEP - Snow Cracks Two
09. SIMON KEEP - Snow Cracks Three
10. SIMON KEEP - Snow Crunch Bit
11. SIMON KEEP - Night Outside Cabin
12. SIMON KEEP - Cold Wind
13. SIMON KEEP - Distant Kushiro Lights
14. SIMON KEEP - Bell Waves
15. SIMON KEEP - Bell Two
16. SIMON KEEP - Zazen Bell One
17. SIMON KEEP - Zazen Bell Two
18. SIMON KEEP - Untitled Process
19. SIMON KEEP - Listening To The Room
20. SIMON KEEP - Low Eggs
21. SIMON KEEP - Treated Steam
22. SIMON KEEP - Steam Wheat One
23. SIMON KEEP - Steam Wheat Two
24. SIMON KEEP - Interview With The Eggs
ARTIST
TITLE
Interview with the Eggs
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SR 234CD SR 234CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/1/2005

"The original sound installation consisted of three headphones playing back three different sounds. Though the first set of headphones the sound of snow was heard, close up and sounding like dust or sugar. The second was the sound of a Buddhist monk meditating in an empty room. The last was the sound of volcanic steam seeping out of the sides of a mountain. Alongside the headphones were one thousand origami cranes. The paper was made from photo snapshots of Japan and when made the cranes were hung in ten rows of one hundred. To make one thousand origami cranes is a Japanese symbol of health and longevity. Sound pieces produced from Mini Disc recordings I made in Japan 2002. The audio has been extracted from Hokkaido's volcanic snow-covered landscape. The composition and patterns of the sound are based on the way I heard these sounds; they are inspired by my experience of listening. One of the recordings was made inside a temple. During 'Zazen' meditation the sound of an empty room was opening out to me and I was hearing sounds deep into the room. One evening I recorded the sound of an empty midnight landscape, again I was listening into the silence and into the distance. Sounds would ring out from the distance, then a split second later I would hear silent space again." -- Simon Keep. Simon Keep is a young Londoner, composer, involved in a series of sound installations. More recently, out of a desire for people to hear/think about sound in a more conscious way, he has been working on a public arts project with Vital Arts at the Royal London Hospital. He has also been working with sound outside of the human audibility, mainly radio waves. Over the summer of 2002 he created a sound triptych for an exhibition in Memphis called 'life/afterlife', (based on this inaudible sound.)